Thread: Task of the Month for December 2008

Riding On Santa's Sled
I am outside at this remote location where there is snow all over the ground, when this sled driven by Santa pulls up really fast and comes to a abrupt halt. When I climb onto the sled it immediately takes off really fast, pinning me back to the seat. We are going so fast that everything is a blur and I am unable to see anything. After a bit, we seem to be going straight up in the air, which I am only able to sense, as everything is still a blur because of the speed at which we are traveling. I eventually lose consciousness.

I have to say, at first I wasn't too enthused about the tasks for this month, but after completing the advanced task, I have to say it was totally worth it! It was so much fun...

ATTEMPT #1: SUCCESS!!
(View my Dream Journal to read the whole dream, below is just the task-relevant part)

"...I tell Morpheus that I want to get to the North Pole so I can get on Santa’s sleigh and complete the DV task of the month. He asks me to grab onto his arm, and I obey. Then both of us begin spinning.

The scene goes black for a while. Then I reemerge in a Christmas-themed waiting room, sans Morpheus. In this room there are many families waiting in one of those windy snake-lines to see Santa. I decide there’s no reason for me to wait, so I use my lucid powers to “toss” people out of my way with a flick of my hand (like magic). I get to the end of the room but don’t see Santa right away. So I say, “Oh Santa, you can come out now” and sure enough he appears. I then say something like “meet me at the sleigh.” I jump through the nearest window to the “tarmac” right outside. I see the landed sleigh right in front of me, with Santa in the reins. It’s a green-colored vehicle of very modern design…sleek curves on an overall oval-shaped sleigh (almost looks like a mini Mon Calamari Cruiser from Star Wars) and no reindeer in sight (it’s motorized, apparently). Worried that he’s going to leave without me, I sprint over to it, jump, and catch on to one of the side guard-rails. It turns out I was just in time, as not a moment later the sleigh takes off and is in the air. I’m still holding on for dear life on a guard-rail bumper thing, but Santa doesn’t seem inclined to invite me to sit shotgun. I actually don’t mind – it’s much more exhilarating this way for me.

We go zooming about the night sky this way for a while, the wind whipping in my face the entire time as we reach incredible speeds. I’m having quite an adrenaline rush. Later, along the way, I have these thoughts that become manifest moments later. First I think about how cool it would be to fly right past the full moon. Then it happens – we are like those silhouettes you always see in Christmas movies of Santa flying past the moon. Then I think about how odd it is that there are no reindeer in front of the sleigh. As soon as I finish this thought, I see two reindeer tethered right there in front. They both turn around and look at me at the same time – I think they even give me a playful wink. Gradually more and more reindeer appear (two at a time) until there is the full contingent..."

that was awsome! I wish my LD was as fun as that, I rode in a trash can sleigh! lol, lined with a white or yellow trashe bag... lol, and when I get in my sleigh, It was very flimsy! kinda, like a big paint pan roller lol.. well thats what it kinda looked like, an oversized paint pa roller.. but it had sleigh curves and stuff like that.. yep.. I cant belive I did it this fast. I just had a spontanius lucid and thought about what to do, then I remebered the DV task!

Hey man, congrats on your success too even if yours wasn't as "glamorous" as mine, haha...
Riding trash cans is definitely more creative. It's amazing what the subconscious can randomly come up with. For example, last month for the yellow brick road task I somehow conjured up a conveyor belt with yellow Lego bricks

Originally Posted by endymion

Hey man, congrats on your success too even if yours wasn't as "glamorous" as mine, haha...
Riding trash cans is definitely more creative. It's amazing what the subconscious can randomly come up with. For example, last month for the yellow brick road task I somehow conjured up a conveyor belt with yellow Lego bricks

LOL

mine was a sidewalk with yellow paint splattered on it

lol these tasks are great motivation to actually learn to become consistently lucid. would be awesome to do the advanced one

I so have to try the basic. One of my favorite things to do in LDs is to explore and see what comes up.

Originally Posted by boo1030

lol these tasks are great motivation to actually learn to become consistently lucid. would be awesome to do the advanced one

Definitely. I wasn't really planning on doing the task, but I had a lucid and took full advantage of it. Before this I was content just letting lucids come as they pleased, but now I want to try the advanced task and see what else I can do in LD.

Aww I don't make sense... at least it counted even tough I didn't ride the sleigh properly... lack of reinders <.<

Yeah my sleigh dint have raindeers either, it had trash bags lol

Hey ninja, I just posted one of my first dreams today, but I've been in the lucid dreaming process for a few monthes now. A few days ago, I dreamt that I was meditating with my dad, and a thought came into my head wondering if I was dreaming. I read a street sign and figured I was since the big YIELD sign was a different colour, and it suddenly changed to a green light. Anyways, I became lucid, and jumped on a bus that was going two ways, there were two different drivers. I wanted to go to my home hockey arena, and before I knew it, I was there. Then the dream went on, with me losing lucidity shortly after.

I was just wondering, I dreamt this before I knew that it was a task this month, so does it really count??


Btw Ninja, I have been an ongoing reader of your dream journal, and keep it up, love the dreams lol

What day did you do it? If it was in December then you can get wings, if it was before then you gotta do it again.


I almost had it last night, I couldn't find a taxi so I rode a van instead Damn

I see in my journal that it was on December 4th.
But again, I didn't know that it was the task...

A few nights ago I tried to find Santa's sleigh again, but I couldn't even get out of the building I was in first.

A couple nights ago I had a normal dream where I was riding in a bus...

Last night I finally got the basic task, but it took me four lucid dreams to even get it done and even then I just barely got it.

In the first lucid I had, I was driving some Army guy around and I was going to try to get rid of him and find some public transportation, but I woke up.

The next lucid I had, I was next to a busy street. There were a bunch of buses going by on it, but I couldn't get any of them to stop for me. I jumped out in front of some of them, but they just went around me.

In my next lucid I car jacked a guy that looked like the Haitian from Heroes. I told him to take me to a bus. I ended up seeing some cop cars while he was driving me around. I was starting to lose control of the dream so I decided maybe getting arrested and riding in a cop car would count a public transportation . I got over to the cop cars and talked to one cop lady, but I woke up.

Finally in my last LD of the night, I lost visuals in it, but I could still feel the ground. I re-imagined the scene with a taxi in it. It worked, but the taxi was upside down in a ditch. I was easily able to lift the taxi out. I tried to get in the passenger's side, but there was no door there. I went around to the driver's side and opened the back door. I yelled at the driver to drive even before I was completely in because I was starting to lose the dream again. He immediately took off and I hopped in. I noticed something strange about his side view mirror and then I woke up.

My public transportation was rather brief, but at least I finally got it. I've had two other lucid experiences of being driven around by people this month, so I don't feel like I missed out on much as far as having the experience goes anyway.

I'm still going to keep trying for Santa's sleigh though.

Heh, I've riden in buses a lot in my dreams XD (And all the buses are shining new and when you ride them, you fell like the bus is floating ) Though none of those dreams were LD's
It'll be easy if I'm gonna become Lucid near my home 'cause there's a bus stop near there

Though I don't think I've ever dreamt of Santa

But I'm still gonna try it when I become lucid!

You'll get lucid on a bus soon.

Does it count if I got on the public transit but gained lucidity after I got on it? I completed the ride if that counts for anything.

I DID THE ADVANCED TASK FOR THE FIRST TIME!!!!!!!

Excerpt from my DJ, red=task of the month:

YYYYYYEEEEEUUUUSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FIRST TASK OF THE MONTH COMPLEEEETTTEEEEEEEDD!!!!

December 18, 2008

I RODE SANTA"S SLEIGH TO THE NORTH POLL, THAT"S RIGHT NOOOOOOOOBBBBBIIIIEEEEWOOOBIIIEEESSSSS!!!!!!!! I AM LD MASTAAAAAHH!!

But seriously. I was lucid last night, and it was the most clear, fun and successful one yet! But first i have to say the dream before it. I wrote the DJ in spanish so this is gonna suck translating lol.

Ok first thing i remember is that i had done something bad enough to have the police chase me. I was being chased by one of their german shepherds, and i was running down the sidewalk, and there was this pond to the right, and the closest part to me had a cement floor/wall. I jumped unnaturally high and the dog came with me, and as i hit the water somebody said "Oh, it sucks that that dog only has 30&#37; insurance coverage", and there was this graph in front of my showing the dogs insurance coverage as i hit the water lol. Well after a few seconds i thought it might be safe to get out, but it wasnt so the same thing happened, and i was back underwater. I could breathe underwater

Well i was just chilling at the bottom of the pool, and there were like two other guys down there, who i guess were my friends. The dog was just swimming around on top waiting for me to come up so he could attack me. I told the other two guys, "Somebody shoot that dog", so one dude pulled out his UZI and blasted it, apparently it worked under water, i felt sorry for the dog but i'm not gonna get caught lol. So I go over to the wall, still underwater, and pick up this weird looking gun that the dog dropped when he died, and his body disappeared just like a Video Game lol, and it apparently shoots poison darts. I say this should work so i swim up to the surface, but the po-po start shooting at me before i can fire, so i am forced to go back under. I'm sitting at the bottom again, and then the gun starts malfunctioning, i'm like crap, then the gun starts shooting this mustard-looking liquid everywhere that is the poison. This dream sort of fades from here.

Next thing i know i am in some house, and that weird mexican-asian looking chick from school is in there. There are other people but i dont pay attention to them. The poison that shot out of the gun is in this bowl that i have in my hand, and so i just decide to shove it down her throat, i dont know why lol, but she doesnt die, she just laughs and acts like its a joke. I tell her "You want to go in the other room?" Thinking i might get lucky, then i get excited and i realize it's a dream.

Before it fully fades i tell myself to rub my hands to gether, thinking its a lost cause but BOOM! All of a sudden and to my surprise i am walking around in that same house, and it feels SO real! For a second i really thought that i might have been walking around in my room while sleeping, because i could feel everything. I could feel my feet hit the ground with each step, and my clothes rub against my "body". The mexican-asian weird-but-still-hot chick was gone, but I saw N-from church and she was looking at me like she wanted me. She walked in the other room and i thought to myself "i'll be in there in a minute". I walked over to the fridge and opened it up, i think i was looking for like ketchup or syrup or something but i didnt find any, lol. Well i turn around, and the room she walked into was gone, and my aunt was sitting on the couch over there where the door used to be! I was like WTF. Well i looked over to the right and there was another room, and N- was in there, and that was a relief. I could see all these people coming out of that room that were not there before, and i was like wtf where are they coming from. I literally thought "Is she having sex with those people???". I walked into the room and there was this big box with a plastic bag around it, and people were just like spawning out of it or something. She was over there taking there hand and helping them out. So many of them came out that i couldn't see her, and pretty soon she was gone.

I was running around the room going "Has anyone seen N-?" but nobody answered me. Zach S. from church was sitting at this desk in there. I walked over to him and said have you seen her and he said "no" like he didnt care. Then i asked him "Are you dreaming?" and he just said back to me, "No, are you dreaming?" and he kept copying me and mocking me and acting like an idiot. I then realized what people mean when they say DC's are retarded. I got so mad at him, and there was this plastic fork on his desk with two prongs, and i thought about hitting him with it, but i thought no he's my friend so i just threw it at the wall. That's when i saw this big square hole in the wall five feet up the wall, and you could see a staircase through it, but you could not see where it went. I asked Mrs. D, "What is that?" and she said "It's a fireplace!", also mocking me as if i was supposed to know that that was a fireplace.

Well after that i was like, so i'm lucid now what do i do? I thought ofthe TOTM and i planned on going out and finding an airplane to fly as "public transit", but i decided santa would be more fun. I walked out the front door with this kid from my school who looked like Dylan W. I said "alright dude i need your help. Let's all go outside to try and call Santa down." I convinced him, and he he went inside and got everyone and they came out. Now begins the TOTM part of the dream. I thought that the DC's might think this is a little ridiculous, so i told them "No one is going to make fun of you, except for maybe these people (pointing to the neighboring houses)." Well everyone went outside and we were standing in the street looking up at the sky yelling "Come on down Santa!!!" Then within seconds someone said "There he is." I looked at the sky and this big red sleigh, led by only four reindeer unfortunately, was coming in for a landing. I thought "HOLY CRAP IT WORKED! WOW! i AM A GENIUS!"

Santa came in for a vertical landing in the coldasack next to the house. Everyone crowded around his sleigh except for me, and he gave this girl a plate of cookies and she gave them to people, i took one of them and ate it, and it just tasted like a regular old sugar cookie. I ate it as i walked toward the sleigh. Keep in mind i was still looking for N-. I walked up to the sleigh and sat down in the front seat. Santa did not look anything like he does in real life. Yes he still was wearing the red suit, but he did not have his hat on, he was skinny, and he wore big black framed glasses. His beard was more like a five-oclock shadow than anything. I asked him "Hey can you take me to my Girlfriends house?", referring to N-, even though she is not my girlfriend in real life. He said "Why isn't she here?" And i think i said something like "She was dissatisfied." LOL! This is kind of foggy but he said something along the lines of "Well i cant take you to her if she is dissatisfied." I was still in the Sleigh and it started lifting off the ground. I sort of made fun of him by saying "Well cant you take me to the Sun?" like he could take me to the sun but not to my gf's. He didnt say anything. We went at the speed of light suddenly and BOOM we were at the north pole!

I looked around, and instead of santa there was a black elf riding in the back. I was like "Santa must have got off back there", but the elf didnt say anything except, "Well i'll see you later, i've got to get back to work." And he hopped off the sleigh. The sleigh was headed towards this hole in the wall where i guess they store it, so i hopped off too. I looked to my left and there was this Robot Santa carrying an undecorated Christmas Tree. Then i looked to my right, and there was a door leading inside, as i was in sort of a courtyard surrounded by buildings, and it was snowing everywhere. I walked through the door and the black elf was in there with his family, and they were sitting down to eat at a table because it was a restaurant. They looked like normal people inside. I said "Hey how are you?" and he said "Good". I said "That's your wife?" but he didnt answer. i looked at his wife who was also black and fat,and said "I'm Zach." She said "That's nice" but kept on acting like i wasnt there and she didnt like me.

Well after that i looked over and all my friends from the christmas party-thing that came out of a plastic bag were sitting at the table eating dinner. I tried to walk over to them, but there was this rail thing in the way, and the dream faded out.

That was awesome!

PS: i think this dream was influenced because i watched "Fred Clause" yesterday and the North Pole sort of looked like the one in that movie.

So do i get the prize?

Originally Posted by Hercuflea

I DID THE ADVANCED TASK FOR THE FIRST TIME!!!!!!!

Excerpt from my DJ, red=task of the month:

YYYYYYEEEEEUUUUSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FIRST TASK OF THE MONTH COMPLEEEETTTEEEEEEEDD!!!!

Dude, you ARE a dream Maastaah! nicely done, thanks for sharing.

I'm a little late but I still have a couple days